Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
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Videobook

Title:

The BBC Videobook of British Garden Birds

Artist:

David Attenborough (narrator)

Date:

1982

Material:

Aluminum, plastic

Dimensions:

12 in. (30 cm)

Company:

BBC

Location:

London, UK

Video clips of over 70 British birds narrated by David Attenborough. Also includes a teletext magazine that a CEEFAX-equipped TV could bring up and navigate.

CEEFAX was a BBC teletext service that broadcast text along with video. The text was transmitted in the analog television signal as binary data in the scan lines that made up the vertical blanking interval (the time between frames during which the electron beam was returned to the top of the screen).

Analog video carrying CEEFAX data could also be recorded to LaserDisc, as with this disc, in which a page of text gives additional information about each of the birds. The text is accessed using the remote control. Very few such discs were released. CEEFAX on LaserDisc was considered for the later BBC Domesday Book project, but a different system was ultimately chosen.

CEEFAX Table of Contents
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